different between colchicum vs hermodactyl

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kolkhikón).

Noun

colchicum (countable and uncountable, plural colchicums)

1. (countable) Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
2. (uncountable, medicine) The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 87:

     Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.

Related terms

• colchicine

Latin

Adjective

colchicum

1. nominative neuter singular of colchicus
2. accusative masculine singular of colchicus
3. accusative neuter singular of colchicus
4. vocative neuter singular of colchicus

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin hermodactylus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (hermodáktulos, “Hermes's finger”).

Noun

hermodactyl (plural hermodactyls)

1. (obsolete) A type of root, probably from a plant of the genus Colchicum, as imported and used in Western medicine.
   • , II.4.1.ii:

     […] turbith, agaric, myrobolanes, hermodactyls, from the East Indies, tobacco from the West […]